| Police officers on the island of Réunion on Wednesday, inspecting what appeared to be a plane part. Prisca Bigot/Zinfos974, via Reuters | Your Thursday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
Good morning. |
Here's what you need to know: |
• Debris from Flight 370? |
Officials were cautious today, reluctant to fan hopes after the discovery of possible wreckage from a Malaysian plane that vanished last year with 239 people on board. |
Investigators are going to Réunion, an island in the Indian Ocean, to examine the debris. U.S. officials who have seen photos concluded that it came from a Boeing 777 like that of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. |
• Murder charge for police officer. |
The prosecutor called for disbanding the campus police force after a white University of Cincinnati police officer was indicted in the shooting death of an unarmed black man during a traffic stop on July 19. |
The crucial evidence was Officer Ray Tensing's body camera, which captured the moment when he shot Samuel Dubose in the head. If convicted, he faces life in prison. |
• Taliban renounce peace talks. |
The Taliban's official spokesman rejected a second round of peace talks with the Afghan government, a day after the death of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban's leader, was declared. |
The militant group seems poised to take the city of Kunduz, the first major city to be taken by the Taliban since they were ousted in 2001. |
• Put it off till tomorrow. |
The Senate will move today to approve a three-month extension to the highway bill passed by the House. |
The short-term patch is the 34th extension since 2009 and it puts off contentious debate over a long-term transportation bill until the fall. |
• And then there were 17. |
Former Gov. Jim Gilmore of Virginia filed the paperwork to run for president, according to the Federal Election Commission. |
A former prosecutor and Virginia attorney general, Mr. Gilmore joins a crowded Republican presidential field. |
• Execution in India. |
Yakub Memon, a central figure in a series of bombings in Mumbai that killed 257 people in 1993, was hanged early today at a prison in central India. |
Of those convicted of crimes related to the bombings, which also injured 700 people, he is the only one to have been executed. |
• Think it's hot where you are? |
Iraq's Council of Ministers declared a four-day mandatory holiday beginning today as temperatures have soared above 120 degrees. |
MARKETS |
• The first estimate of the U.S. economy's growth in the second quarter is due this morning, with economists expecting to see an annual rate of around 2.6 percent. |
• Sony reported a 39 percent rise in profit on strong sales of camera sensors and PlayStations, while Samsung's earnings fell for a fifth straight quarter after a slowdown in smartphones. |
• Royal Dutch Shell is cutting 6,500 jobs after saying its profit fell sharply in the second quarter because of lower oil and gas prices. |
• Deutsche Bank's new chief executive signaled today that he plans major changes in the bank, Germany's largest, despite posting a tripling of profit in the latest quarter. |
• Wall Street stock futures are slightly lower. European indexes are ahead, while Asia ended widely mixed. |
NOTEWORTHY |
• Hunter becomes target. |
Dr. Walter J. Palmer, the dentist and hunter who killed Cecil, a lion, after the animal was lured out of its sanctuary in Zimbabwe, is facing an onslaught on the Internet. |
He has gone from being a dentist in Minnesota to a villain at the center of a firestorm over the ethics of big-game hunting. |
• Millennials less likely to leave home. |
A study shows that more members of the millennial generation have yet to leave their parents' home even though the economy has improved and jobs are more easily available. |
Increased student debt loads and higher rents in popular cities may be partly to blame. |
• Rolling Stone in the spotlight. |
Will Dana, the managing editor of Rolling Stone, will leave the magazine, months after an article about a supposed gang rape at the University of Virginia was retracted. No successor has been named. |
And three former members of a fraternity have filed a lawsuit against Rolling Stone for defamation and infliction of emotional distress, saying the article had a "devastating effect" on their reputations. |
BACK STORY |
A gang of wingless birds is catapulting back onto smartphone screens today. |
Angry Birds 2, the official sequel to what was once the best-selling mobile app game, is now available in app stores. |
Angry Birds — along with more than a dozen related versions — has been downloaded more than two and half a billion times since it was first released in December 2009. |
But in the last two years, its maker, the Finnish company Rovio, has failed to rank in the top 10 game publishers by revenue. |
The new version is still a destructive battle between noble, self-sacrificing birds and greedy, thieving pigs. |
Players catapult birds into structures to knock them down and kill the pigs inside, which have stolen the birds' eggs. |
The structures react to the birds' impact somewhat according to the laws of physics. But they're suicide missions because each bird that is hurled dies. |
Version 2 gives players choices of targets, new strategies and characters, daily tournaments, and better animation. It is free for Android and Apple phones. |
Rovio is hoping to pump up interest before an animated film featuring the birds and the pigs comes out next summer. |
Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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